1One of Fitzgerald’s doctors in California.
1This pseudonym was not used.
2Peck & Peck, a fashionable New York women’s clothing store, had a branch shop near the Vassar campus.
1The Best Short Stories 1940 (1940).
2Character actor who was Fitzgerald’s landlord at “Belly Acres” in Encino.
3One Fitzgerald story, “On an Ocean Wave,” appeared posthumously under the pseudonym “Paul Elgin” in Esquire (February 1941).
4Gingrich declined “Dearly Beloved”; it was first published in the Fitzgerald/Hemingway Annual 1969.
5Esquire (June 1941).
6This poem addressed to Sheilah Graham was declined by Esquire; it was first published in Beloved Infidel, a memoir of Fitzgerald by Sheilah Graham and Gerold Frank (1958).
7Wilcox was a sentimental poet; Hope wrote romantic verse set in exotic locales.
8The Berg-Allenberg Agency represented Fitzgerald in Hollywood after he left the Swanson and Hayward agencies. William Dozier was head of the story department.
1Articles on changing the Princeton club system in the Princeton Alumni Weekly (February 16 and 23, 1940).
2The Vassar Miscellany.
3The bottom of this page is torn off, removing words on the last line.
1This return address appears on the letter; the letters before and after it are from the Encino address.
2Zelda Fitzgerald was allowed a furlough from Highland Hospital and was planning to stay with her mother in Montgomery. This arrangement held until her death in 1948; she returned to the hospital voluntarily when she anticipated relapses.
1Oh My God, It’s Monday.
2Frances Kroll, Fitzgerald’s secretary.
3Producer Lester Cowan had bought movie rights to “Babylon Revisited” for $1,000 and hired Fitzgerald to write the screenplay for $500 a week.
1Turnbull.
1British actor.
1“The Missing All,” Virginia Quarterly Review (Winter 1937).
2A 1939 novel by Pietro Di Donate
1Felix Bressart.
1The working title for the screenplay of “Babylon Revisited” was “Honoria,” but Fitzgerald also considered calling it “Cosmopolitan.” The movie was never made from Fitzgerald’s screenplay, which was published by Carroll & Graf in 1993.
1The bracketed passage—not in the Princeton University copy—is transcribed from Turn-bull.
1Gloria Patch of The Beautiful and Damned.
1Esquire (September 1940).
2Esquire (November 1940).
3Esquire (February 1941).
1Reed was a member of the American Communist Party, author of Ten Days That Shook the World (1919), and the only American buried in the wall of the Kremlin.
2Whitney, a socially prominent stockbroker and head of the New York Stock Exchange, went to prison for embezzlement.
1Cowan wanted Shirley Temple to play the role of Honoria in the movie version of “Babylon Revisited.”
2Fitzgerald received a total of $5,000 for the rights to the story and his screenplay.
3The top portion of this letter is torn off.
1“Melanctha,” one of the stories in Gertrude Stein’s Three Lives (1909); Kitty Foyle, 1939 novel by Christopher Morley.
21928 play by Eugene O’Neill.
1Hemingway had been divorced from Pauline Pfeiffer Hemingway.
21940 movie written by Preston Sturges.
1One of Maxwell Perkins’s daughters.
2Lowell’s John Keats was published in 1925; Sir Sidney Colvin published several books on Keats, among them John Keats (Scribners, 1917).
1Mary Surratt was hanged for her participation in the assassination of Abraham Lincoln.
2Ben Hecht, Nunnally Johnson, Dorothy Parker, and Dashiell Hammett had enjoyed success in other genres before becoming Hollywood screenwriters.
1Hemingway outfitted his fishing boat so that he could patrol the Caribbean for German submarines; MacLeish had been appointed Librarian of Congress in 1939 and organized several new departments in the U.S. government during the war years.
1The bracketed passage—not in the Princeton University copy—is transcribed from Turn-bull.
1Scottie had published an article signed Frances Scott Fitzgerald in the college issue of Harper’s Bazaar.
1Fitzgerald was inventing an aria from Italian opera; Edda Ciano was Mussolini’s daughter.
2Hemingway had inscribed a copy of For Whom the Bell Tolls (Scribners, 1940) to Fitzgerald: “To Scott with affection and esteem Ernest” (Bruccoli).
1Screenwriter Alan Campbell was Dorothy Parker’s husband.
2Hemingway married journalist and novelist Martha Gellhorn in 1940.
1You Can’t Go Home Again (1940).
1Samuel J. Lanahan, a Princetonian, whom Scottie married in 1943.
2Fitzgerald had suffered a heart attack at Schwab’s drugstore on Sunset Boulevard, Hollywood.
1Scribners editor John Hall Wheelock.
2What Makes Sammy Run? (1941).
1Last letter of Fitzgerald to Scottie Fitzgerald.
2Reference to Maugham’s “The Letter.”
INDEX
Abie’s Irish Rose (Nichols), 131
Able McLaughlins, The (Wilson), 119
“Absolution” (Fitzgerald), 71, 76, 77n, 80, 95, 108, 121, 480
Act of Darkness (Bishop), 275n, 281, 282
Adams, Franklin Pierce (F.P.A.), 63, 109, 113, 121, 140, 151n
Adams, Henry, 32
“Adjuster, The” (Fitzgerald), 93
“Adolescent Marriage, The” (Fitzgerald), 136, 260
Air Raid (movie), 393n, 402, 435
Akins, Zoë, 62, 190
All God’s Chillun Got Wings (O’Neill), 77
All Quiet on the Western Front (movie), 431
All the Sad Young Men (Fitzgerald), 72, 108, 113, 120–22, 124, 174
All This and Heaven Too (movie), 452
Allen, Gracie, 265, 272, 295
Allen, Jack, 7, 10
American Caravan, 175
American Language, The (Mencken), 109
American Magazine, 261, 283n, 292
American Mercury, 67, 77, 80, 121, 129, 157n, 158, 161, 175, 200, 238n, 376, 480
American Tragedy, An (Dreiser), 182, 275, 276
American Writers Congress, 324n
America’s Coming of Age (Brooks), 102
Amerika (Kafka), 474
Anderson, Maxwell, 127n
Anderson, Sherwood, 49n, 92, 97, 113, 118–20, 124, 132, 133, 137, 138
Andrews, Mary Raymond Shipman, 57, 137n
Angell, Katharine, 173
Anna Christie (O’Neill), 61
“Apology of an Expatriate” (Stearns), 159n
Apple of the Eye, The (Wescott), 99, 106, 113, 119
Appleton publishing company, 112
Appointment in Samarra (O’Hara), 233n
Aquinas, St. Thomas, 387
Aragon, Louis, 176
À rebours (Huysmans), 465
Ariel: The Life of Shelley (Maurois), 75, 81
Arlen, Michael, 108, 142, 144, 181, 183
Armstrong, Margaret, 8
Arrowsmith (Lewis), 103, 133n
Art of the Novel, The (James), 273n
Ashes (Cathcart), 137n
Asquith, Margot, 155
Assorted Spirits (Fitzgerald), 2
Astounding Stories, 215
Asylum (Seabrook), 320n
“Athletic Interview” (Fitzgerald), 321
Athelstan, 155
Atlantic Monthly, 35, 104, 149
At Sea (Calder-Marshall), 273n
“At Your Age” (Fitzgerald), 168, 260, 359
Austen, Jane, 144
Awake and Sing (Odets), 390n
Axel’s Castle (Wilson), 227
Babbitt (Lewis), 91, 95
“Babes in the Woods” (Fitzgerald), 25
“Bab” stories (Rinehart), 36
“Babylon Revisited” (Fitzgerald), 177, 260, 326,
374, 402
movie of, 439, 445, 446, 448, 450, 452, 453, 456, 458, 464
“Baby Party, The” (Fitzgerald), 69, 76, 80, 121
Baker, George Pierce, 343
Bal du Comte d’Orgel, Le (Radiguet), 80, 93, 97, 125
Balch, David, 40–41
Balcon, Michael, 435
Balisand (Hergesheimer), 80n
Ballets Russes, 296n
Balmer, Edwin, 284, 394
Baltimore Evening Sun, 53n
Balzac, Honoré de, 465
Bankhead, Gene, 190
Bankhead, Tallulah, 130
Banning, Margaret Culkin, 319, 448
Barbellion, W. N. P., 35
Barrie, James M., 12, 13, 33, 57, 58, 79
Barron Collier advertising agency, 4
Barry, Philip, 194
Basil Duke Lee stories (Fitzgerald), 158, 181, 183, 236, 260, 261, 292, 374
Beach, Sylvia, 156
Beaumont, Etienne de, 126
Beautiful and Damned, The (Fitzgerald), xx, 27, 41n, 46, 49n, 52n, 61, 67, 83, 94, 112, 134, 137, 142, 183, 189, 190, 453n
movie of, 167, 425
Becket, Thomas à, 155
Beethoven, Ludwig van, 460
Belasco, David, 190, 333
Bell, Clive, 209
Bell Syndicate, 127
“Beloved Infidel” (Fitzgerald), 434
Benchley, Robert, 138, 188
“Benediction” (Fitzgerald), 25, 42, 111
Benét, Stephen Vincent, 12
Benét, William Rose, 61, 106, 134
Bennett, Arnold, 12, 34n
Bennett, Constance, 267
Benson, E. F., 99
Benson, Robert Hugh, 17, 21
Beresford, John Davys, 20
Berg, Phil, 434–35, 441, 442
Berlin, Irving, 131
“Bernice Bobs Her Hair” (Fitzgerald), xx, 7n, 26, 36, 42, 52
“Between Three and Four” (Fitzgerald), 260
Beyond the Horizon (O’Neill), 118
Bierce, Ambrose, 162, 431
Big Parade, The (movie), 158, 174
Big Town, The (Lardner), 108
Bigelow, Alida, 33–34
Biggs, John, Jr., 2, 11, 12, 16, 92, 134, 138–40, 158, 172, 174, 479
letters to, 44–45, 388–90
Birth of a Nation, The (movie), 430
Bishop, John Peale, xix, 2, 11, 12, 16, 18, 29, 47, 49, 58, 61, 77, 96, 113, 147, 158, 175, 181, 182, 188, 190, 191, 199, 200, 376, 391, 445, 460, 470, 471, 479
letters to, 52–53, 98–101, 104–5, 125–26, 162–64, 252–53, 255, 274–77, 281–83
as literary executor, 238
Bishop, Margaret, 101, 104, 126, 147, 199
Bismarck, Otto von, 154
Black, John, 122
Blackstone, William, 155
Blair, Mary, 77, 199n
Blake, William, 457, 460
Bleuler, Paul Eugen, 202, 204
Bliss, Tasker, 99
Bly, Nellie, 75
Bobbs-Merrill, 79
Bojer, Johan, 118
Bolshevism, 226n
Bonheur, Rosa, 345
Boni & Liveright publishing company, 56, 57, 114n, 115–16, 120, 131, 133, 134
Book-of-the-Month Club, 236
Bookman, 49, 50n, 51, 55n, 145, 261, 375
Books and Battles of the Twenties (Cleaton), 319
Boon; The Mind of the Race (Wells), 12
“Bowl, The” (Fitzgerald), 150n, 260
Boyd, Ernest, 86, 93, 100, 112
Boyd, James, 277
Boyd, Peggy, 69, 92, 139
Boyd, Thomas, 60, 68–69, 76, 91, 92, 109, 117, 119–20, 124, 127, 131, 132, 134, 137, 139, 140, 158, 172, 174, 181, 183, 318
Boyd, Woodward, 140
Brackett, Charles, 126
Bradley, William Aspinwall, 133
Brady, William A., 117
Braun, L. G., 295
Brennan, Jack, 142n
Bressart, Felix, 446n
“Bridal Party, The” (Fitzgerald), 260
Bride Wore Red, The (movie), 344, 345
Bridge of San Luis Rey, The (Wilder), 182
Bridges, Robert, 32, 35, 54, 62, 69, 76, 145, 146
“Bright Star” (Keats), 460
Brindell, 45
Brinson, Marjorie Sayre, 257, 418
“British Novelists Limited” (Gerould), 12
Bromfield, Louis, 154, 155, 171, 183
Brooke, Rupert, 15, 17, 30, 81n, 285n, 480
Brooklyn Eagle, 113n
Brooks, Van Wyck, 99, 102, 117
letter to, 122–23
Brothers Karamazov, The (Dostoevsky), 111, 253, 455
Broun, Hey wood, 113
Browder, Earl, 226
Brown, Arthur William, 63
Brown, Harry Joe, 425, 435
Brown University, 304
Browning, Elizabeth Barrett, 408
Browning, Robert, 75
Bruckmüller, Colonel, 176
Brush, Katherine, 294
Bryan, Colonel, 291
Bryan, Donald, 63
Bryce, Viscount, 467
Bryn Mawr College, 351
Buck, Gene, 63, 65, 191
Buck, Helen, 191
Budge, Don, 337
Bunn, Frank, 374
Burgess, Bunny, 191
Burne, Alfred Higgins, 390
Burns, Dorothy, 369, 370
Burns, George, 265, 295n
Burt, A. L., 56–58
Burt, Maxwell Struthers, 76, 80–82, 171
Burton, Harry, 238, 239
Butcher, Fanny, 121
Butler, Samuel, 32, 35, 55, 388
Byron, George Gordon, Lord, 17n, 185n
Byron (Maurois), 185n
Cabala, The (Wilder), 182
Cabell, James Branch, 36, 117
Cable, George Washington, 57
Cadman, Samuel Parkes, 143
Caesar: A Sketch (Froude), 389
Café Society (movie), 384, 471
Calder-Marshall, Arthur, 273
Caldwell, Erskine, 175, 217, 226, 471
California, University of, 345
Callaghan, Morley, 171, 173, 175, 182, 183, 217, 226, 264n, 373, 471
Calverton, V. F. (George Goetz), 277
Cambridge University, 40
Campbell, Alan, 470
Candida (Shaw), 440, 457
Cantwell, Robert, 175
Cape, Jonathan, 112, 158–59, 174, 245, 281
Captured Shadow, The (Fitzgerald), 2
Carpenter, Henry, 146
Carroll, Madeleine, 384, 387
Carroll, Robert S., 349–51, 355–58, 413, 418–19, 437, 438, 441, 467
Carroll & Graf publishing company, 448n
Casanova, 320
Cathcart, Vera, Countess, 137
Cather, Willa, 91, 100–101, 113, 118, 132
Cavalcade magazine, 333
“Celebrities’ Day-book, The” (Bell Syndicate columns) (Lardner), 79
“Cellar, The” (Bishop), 162n, 175n
Century magazine, 201, 279
Cerf, Bennett, 300–301, 306–7, 360, 373
Chambers, Robert W., 17, 99, 143
Chamson, André, 156, 158, 176, 445
Chamson, Lucie, 156
“Change of Class, A” (Fitzgerald), 260
Changing Winds (Ervine), 20
Chanler, Mrs. Winthrop, 21, 163, 187
Chanler, Theodore, 192n
Chaplin, Charles, 124
Chartreuse de Parme, Le (Stendhal), 430
Chase, Stuart, 226
Chatto & Windus, 113, 132, 158–59, 174, 245
Chesterton, G. K., 12, 15, 17, 20, 184
Chicago Tribune, 121
Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage (Byron), 17n
Chorus Girl’s Romance, The (movie), 26, 37n
Christ in Concrete (Di Donato), 445
Christian Science, 298
Christie, Agatha, 40
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Christie’s auction house, 122
Churchill, Lady Randolph, 190
Churchill, Winston, 208, 480
Ciano, Edda, 469n
“Circus at Dawn” (Wolfe), 280n
Civil War, 163, 383, 397, 430–31, 461–62, 465, 471
Clark, Robert D., 45–46
Clark family, 271
Clarkson, Elizabeth, 8
Cleaton, Irene and Allen, 319n
Cleland, John, 135n
Clemenceau, Georges, 99
Closed All Night (Morand), 193n
Cobb, Buff, 337
Cobb, Irvin S., 39, 337
Cocteau, Jean, 80, 176
Colbert, Claudette, 335
Coleman, Bobby, 440, 472
College Humor magazine, 73, 95, 136, 140, 148, 162n, 170n, 200, 215, 261, 262, 317, 406
Collier’s magazine, 323n, 333, 340, 393, 397, 413, 414–16, 427, 430, 444, 470
Collins, W., Sons, 48, 113, 124
Colum, Mary, 106, 302n
Columbia Broadcasting System, 296
Columbia Pictures, 326, 360, 425, 439, 456
Colvin, Sidney, 460
Communism, 226, 227, 389n, 460
Compson, Betty, 193
Connelly, Marc, 99, 182n
Conrad, Joseph, 40, 56, 85, 104, 108, 110, 119, 149, 151, 161, 252, 255, 256, 258, 263, 276, 359, 410, 472
Considine, John, 294, 424
Constant Nymph, The (Kennedy), 108
Contemporary Verse, 18
Conway, Jack, 435
Coolidge, Calvin, 138
Cooper, Merian C., 425
Cormack, Bartlett, 292
“Cosmopolitan” (Fitzgerald), 326
Cosmopolitan magazine, 238, 239, 261, 262, 297, 333
Costain, Thomas B., 183
Country People (Suckow), 129
Cours Dieterlen (Paris), 265
Cowan, Ann, 448
Cowan, Lester, 439n, 446, 448, 456, 459
Coward, Noël, 166, 451
Coward, The (Fitzgerald), 2
Cowboys North and South (James), 89n, 93
Cowl, Jane, 63